ALI rule
The ALI rule, or American Law Institute Model Penal Code rule, is a recommended rule for instructing juries how to find a defendant in a criminal trial is not guilty by reason of insanity.[1]:614-5 It broadened the M'Naghten rule of whether a defendant was so mentally ill they he is unable to "know" the nature and quality of her criminal act, or know its wrongfulness, to a question of whether he had "substantial capacity to appreciate the criminality of his conduct".[1]:614-5 It also added a volitional component as to whether defendant was lacking in "substantial capacity to conform his conduct to the law".[1]:614-5 It arose from the case of United States v. Brawner.[1]:634
The ALI rule is:
- "(1) A person is not responsible for criminal conduct if at the time of such conduct as a result of mental disease of defect he lacks substantial capacity either to appreciate the criminality of his conduct or to conform his conduct to the requirements of the law.
- "(2) As used in this Article, the terms "mental disease or defect" do not include an abnormality manifested only by repeated criminal or otherwise antisocial conduct [Section 4.01]."
References
- 1 2 3 4 Criminal Law - Cases and Materials, 7th ed. 2012, Wolters Kluwer Law & Business; John Kaplan, Robert Weisberg, Guyora Binder, ISBN 978-1-4548-0698-1,
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